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The problem of violence in the Old Testament is something the Church has wrestled with for hundreds of years. Most people intuit that such violence—especially against children—is wrong. Various solutions have been proposed, including allegorical interpretation. The popular medieval study Bible, Glossa ordinaria, insisted that the laudation of dashing infants’ heads against a rock in
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Welcome to the 149th Biblical Studies Carnival covering the month of July 2018! I am glad you stopped by. If you’ve never been to the Carnival before, here is the scoop: there are a lot of scholars out there on the internet writing insightful things (or making an attempt anyway), so each month we have
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I recently came across a song called “World So Full” by Jon Dee Graham. It is covered below by Gloria Showalter who writes, “My major is Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies, which means that many of my classes deal with some of the worst stuff in the world. My four years here at Goshen College
Is there an “original” Bible? Can we sort through copies of biblical manuscripts to reconstruct the first autographs penned by individual authors? Often Christians believe it’s essential to find the single, original meaning of the Bible, usually through a branch of biblical studies called textual criticism. Textual criticism is a form of scholarship that compares
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For convenient access, I have collected the five blog posts on inerrancy here: Part I: What Is Biblical Inerrancy? Part II: Biblical Inerrancy Debate: Al Mohler and Peter Enns Part III: Biblical Inerrancy Debate: Michael Bird, Kevin Vanhoozer, and John Franke Part IV: Does the Bible Have Errors? Part V: Would You Sign the Chicago
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This is the fifth and final post in a series on inerrancy. Would you sign the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy? Why or Why not? Should the statement be discarded? Revised? Affirmed? CSBI has 19 articles. The preface to CSBI states, “We invite response to this statement from any who see reason to amend its
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This is the fourth in a series of five posts on inerrancy. Reflecting on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and the five views presented by Albert Mohler, Peter Enns, Michael Bird, Kevin Vanhoozer, and John Franke, two key issues stand out for me: the definition of “error” and the nature of inspiration. If the
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In the two previous posts I outlined a brief history of the doctrine of inerrancy as it developed under the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, as well as summarized the debate on inerrancy between Albert Mohler and Peter Enns. This post continues the debate as found in the book Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy. This
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This is the second in a series of five posts on inerrancy. For the historical background on the doctrine of inerrancy see my first post, “Biblical Inerrancy?” In recent years, discussion among evangelicals has heated up around biblical inerrancy. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (CSBI) was primarily a response to Protestant liberalism and neo-orthodoxy.
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This post is the first in a series of five on the topic of inerrancy. “The Bible is inerrant.” What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you read that statement? What emotions arise? Do you respond with “Amen! Preach it sister!” Do you feel an aversion or objection? Or, perhaps, you
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